June 05, 2004

POWERFUL MIKE

Michael Moore says that he has put the media storm surrounding Fahrenheit 9/11 behind him, and is already working hard on the media storm surrounding his follow-up movie, which has the working title Preaching To The Converted IV.

The director promises his fans that like the rest of his highly successful books and movies, his next film will demonstrate Mooreís enormous political clout by completely convincing lifetime Democrat voters not to vote Republican.

In other publicity-addicted lunatic news, elderly anti-nuke freak Helen Caldicott is the subject of a new film made by her niece. Itís called -- seriously -- Helenís War: Portrait of a Dissident, and calmly examines the total greatness that is Helen:

Helen's War is a Canadian-Australian co-production that follows Caldicott in the US promoting her book, The New Nuclear Danger, before and after the Bush Administration declared war on Iraq.

The documentary also covers Caldicott's anti-nuclear crusade and shows her with her family.

Thank God for Helen Caldicott. Before she began her tireless war against nuclear weapons, I thought nuclear weapons were harmless! She led me to the truth: Like cigarettes, nuclear weapons can harm people!

Ushie, only those nuclear weapons owned by western democracies can harm people. The Helen Caldicotts of the world never had a problem with the nuclear weapons owned by totalitarian marxist dictatorships.

I recall going to a speech she made during the Bush Sr. Administration (I think 1989 or so) where she stated - with no qualifications at all - that he (Bush) was going to launch a nuclear attack against the then-Soviet Union. Flat out, bet your house statement.

What is this strange new use of the word "dissident" that I see these days? They're always using it to describe people who governments neither silence or deport, and have many political compatriots. Are these same folks willing to call the Dalai Lama a dissident?

Does Caldicott's new book explain the Treaty of Moscow's deep reductions in US and Russian nuclear warhead counts, and how they happened in the midst of the arms race that was sure to ensue following US abrogation of the ABM Treaty? The reckless unilateral Bushies just seem to keep stumbling into these sorts of successes -- but surely Caldicott and her really, really smart ilk can explain how this is all leading to disaster.

No, ushie, Iran's nukes are merely a deterrent that they would not need if they were not living in fear of the Great Satan. Same with the Soviet's. See, cheating, killing and stockpiling nukes are the only way these noble countries can survive the genocide of the west, that's why they get a pass.